Top 10 Cards with Crazy Lines of Text in MtG

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  • Опубликовано: 23 дек 2024

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  • @salvatoredantonio2413
    @salvatoredantonio2413 Год назад +476

    "If a creature enters the battlefield with two instances of riot, you may choose to have it get two +1/+1 counters, one +1/+1 counter and haste, or two instances of haste. Multiple instances of haste on the same creature are redundant, but we're not going to tell the Gruul how to live their lives."

    • @Spike40532
      @Spike40532 Год назад +3

      what card?

    • @Spike40532
      @Spike40532 Год назад +76

      upon further research I have found that this is infact not from a card but from the mtg fandom wiki page for the riot keyword and the exact quote is "If a creature enters the battlefield with two instances of riot, you may choose to have it get two +1/+1 counters, one +1/+1 counter and haste, or two instances of haste. Multiple instances of haste on the same creature are redundant, but it allows Gruul to send a strong message to its opponents."

    • @salvatoredantonio2413
      @salvatoredantonio2413 Год назад

      @@Spike40532 I quoted the Gatherer website which ends slightly differently

    • @shadewrecker9683
      @shadewrecker9683 Год назад

      @@Spike40532 it's a ruling on the gatherer page for rhythm of the wild

    • @Neo_Way
      @Neo_Way Год назад +56

      ​@@Spike40532 it's not from the fandom wiki, but the Gatherer page, which is where WotC posts official rulings for each card that gets released. Some rulings, such as this one, are jokey in nature.

  • @wjdelu6758
    @wjdelu6758 Год назад +331

    My honorable mention goes to Progenitus. The simple phrase "Protection from everything" blew my mind when I was brand new to the game.

  • @HalfSquad
    @HalfSquad Год назад +152

    My favorite crazy line of text is Platinum Angel's "You can't lose the game and your opponents can't win the game." Such a simple yet powerful string of words.

    • @therealnynetynyne360
      @therealnynetynyne360 Год назад

      It's a creature and an artifact if it was one or the other it would be more powerful, but it dies to more shit than any other creature so it's really not that powerful

    • @KingRorix
      @KingRorix Год назад +23

      @@therealnynetynyne360 to be fair, OP said that specific line of text was powerful, not that the card itself was.

    • @Xenozfan2
      @Xenozfan2 Год назад +7

      Abyssal Persecutor: "No u."

    • @piercearora7681
      @piercearora7681 Год назад +1

      Two players with Platinum Angel and Signature Spells with Teferi's Protection...

    • @0011peace
      @0011peace Год назад +2

      @@therealnynetynyne360 enchant creatures die just as easy as artifact creatures. Also land, ceatures, artifact land and encahnt ment lands are easier to kill than lands. Anytime soimething is of more than one perm type it is easier to kill in general.

  • @fernandobanda5734
    @fernandobanda5734 Год назад +350

    To give context to CIty in a Bottle, remember that Arabian Nights was the first expansion for any trading card game ever. Many things that we take for granted now were not really established. In Richard Garfield's head, if you didn't want to play the new expansion, you didn't have to, and if there was something in the new expansion that was stronger, players would want an answer for it. The idea that a new product would invalidate the old product in any way was inconceivable.

    • @williamdrum9899
      @williamdrum9899 Год назад +41

      Originally the Arabian Nights cards were going to have a different card back too

    • @Lets_go_lesbians
      @Lets_go_lesbians Год назад +34

      We need a city in a bottle that hits all modern masters 2 permanents

    • @tannertadlock7741
      @tannertadlock7741 Год назад +11

      @@williamdrum9899 in a weird way, I’m happy they didn’t change it. It’s this weird, grandfathered in thing that Magic will always have

    • @williamdrum9899
      @williamdrum9899 Год назад +16

      @@tannertadlock7741 Oh you mean "Deckmaster"

  • @FranciscoJG
    @FranciscoJG Год назад +311

    "it's basically impossible to get 101 creatures on field"
    Scute Swarm: "hold my lands"

    • @Bheckler24
      @Bheckler24 Год назад +35

      yeah that statement desperately needs a "...in limited" rider

    • @fwg1994
      @fwg1994 Год назад +56

      More it's almost impossible for 100 to be a relevant number. It either functionally blocks everything, or the opponent can make so many creatures that it functionally blocks nothing.

    • @therealnynetynyne360
      @therealnynetynyne360 Год назад +5

      I used to have an elf deck that could shit out 100 tokens in 4 turns lol

    • @Bheckler24
      @Bheckler24 Год назад +3

      @@fwg1994 that's....not true at all. Doesn't make it any less of a bad card though

    • @camb06
      @camb06 Год назад +6

      *Rhys the Redeemed has entered the chat*
      I once lost a match where I had 1,430 3/3 Green and White Elf Warrior creature tokens, but my opponent had Platinum Angel and kept hitting me for 1 flying every turn. I couldn’t do anything because I would need more instances of “destroy target artifact” than I had in the entire deck (even with conspire) because they had so many instances of “regenerate target artifact” in response. It was a very interesting game to lose.

  • @jeezuhskriste5759
    @jeezuhskriste5759 Год назад +127

    0:50 Hundred Handed One actually only comes in 7th for number of creatures it can block. There’s 6-way tie for first place between Avatar of Hope, Guardian of the Gateless, Ironfist Crusher, Palace Guard, Thoughtweft Trio, and Wall of Glare, which can all block any number of creatures.

    • @thomasfplm
      @thomasfplm Год назад +22

      And it would be good to add that Hundred Handed One's ability is far from being equivalent to being equivalent of blocking any number of creatures, when there are infinite creature combos.

    • @greyaye8565
      @greyaye8565 Год назад +9

      I have no jokes stopped an infinite 1/1 token combo with Cryptic Gateway and putting a Guardian of the Gateless into play, blocking and killing every one of them.

    • @thomasfplm
      @thomasfplm Год назад +3

      @@greyaye8565, I did not kill the attackers, but I also blocked a combo like this, but with Kaldra's Shield on Weathered Bodyguards that was face down, then turning it face up.
      I destroyed his sacrifice outlet that would allow him to win widow attacking and I could attack with an unblockable creature, so I ended up winning.

    • @2LettersSho
      @2LettersSho Год назад +3

      I took that phrase as meaning, "no other card can block this number of creatures at once" since "infinite" isn't a number. Still doesn't make that much more sense but eh, it's a pass from me.

    • @PlagasXM
      @PlagasXM Год назад +1

      Thank you, the second the line came up about being unable to block as many as Hundred-Handed One I rushed to the comments to counter with Avatar of Hope only to see you had it covered 🤣

  • @Nikki227
    @Nikki227 Год назад +125

    No Obsidian Fireheart? That's my favorite bit of text on any card. "The land continues to burn" is pure poetry.

    • @christopherb501
      @christopherb501 Год назад +1

      Again, we have GOT to get more of these, specifically.

    • @Amphibian42
      @Amphibian42 Год назад +2

      Have always wanted to build a blaze counter deck somehow

    • @Finngrinder
      @Finngrinder Год назад +11

      Also Raging River which divides the battlefield into two sides of the river

    • @DimensionPlant
      @DimensionPlant Год назад +8

      To be fair, it is reminder text and not rules text. Reminder text doesn't have fixed templating, which R&D should make more use of IMO.

  • @targetbuddy5
    @targetbuddy5 Год назад +161

    8:42 I mean, technically Animate Dead has to enchant a creature in a graveyard before it enchants that creature on the field, albeit briefly.

    • @OswaldOrtensia4ever
      @OswaldOrtensia4ever Год назад +4

      Necromancy too

    • @Bheckler24
      @Bheckler24 Год назад +14

      yeah that funny lol, such specific wording when there are technically two other cards that also do it (Animate Dead and the errata for Dance of the Dead). It's still the only one that enchants a non-permanent in the graveyard though.

    • @sofasleeper5
      @sofasleeper5 Год назад +5

      @@OswaldOrtensia4ever Unlike Animate Dead, Necromancy never actually enchants the card while it is in the graveyard. Instead it is a non-aura until the creature is on the battlefield.

    • @williamdrum9899
      @williamdrum9899 Год назад +1

      @@sofasleeper5 That's the easier way to avoid the rules baggage.

    • @ReyosBlackwood
      @ReyosBlackwood Год назад

      @@Bheckler24 True, if this had said the only card to enchant a non permanent card, it probably would have been correct (enchant player exists but players aren't cards)

  • @BadDrummerCarl
    @BadDrummerCarl Год назад +181

    City in a Bottle and Apocalypse Chime are not the only 2.
    Golgothian Silex
    {4} Artifact
    {1}, {T}: Each nontoken permanent with a name originally printed in the Antiquities expansion is sacrificed by its controller.
    (The set includes tron lands for oddball sideboarding)

    • @antivalidisme5669
      @antivalidisme5669 Год назад +4

      This. I mean I have such a deep connection with this card, it's quite hard to deliver especially since English is definitely not my mother language. But still back in 1994 I visited the Louvres museum for the first time and what a ancient Greek design, with my mum and my sister, while trying to get the best engineering school around- very French stuff I admit-.
      And a couple of months later, some lads introduced me to that freaking game, and this card, still by my left while I'm typing is such a connection between then and now. Plus oopsie doopsie factory ;)
      Cheers!

    • @jamesgasik3424
      @jamesgasik3424 Год назад +2

      @Burger Pants Arena of the Ancients affects Legendary creatures; when it was printed, these were the only kind of legendary permanents, so it has the confusing "tap all legends. Legends do not untap" wording.

    • @ltjgambrose
      @ltjgambrose Год назад +3

      Crazily enough, the Golgothian Silex is the center of the current story arc in Magic, almost 30 years after its printing. Wild.

    • @williamdrum9899
      @williamdrum9899 Год назад

      Also Ashnod's Altar

    • @symbs
      @symbs Год назад

      OP is just seeking more engagement for his metrics. Nobody is dumb enough to think only 2 cards reference sets.

  • @fernaligatr
    @fernaligatr Год назад +69

    “Making 101 creatures is basically impossible”
    Me crashing MTGA on my phone after attempting to make 300+ Scute Swarms: “Nice”

    • @williamdrum9899
      @williamdrum9899 Год назад +4

      Funny how computer limitations basically means that a game in paper would have a different outcome on arena even if all the same cards were drawn and played in the same order etc

  • @GreatSkyWhale
    @GreatSkyWhale Год назад +27

    I'm surprised that Hogaak, Arisen Necropolis was absent. "You can't spend mana to cast this spell" is a pretty wild line. And the fact that he dominated modern despite that level of drawback is a whole story in itself.

    • @0011peace
      @0011peace Год назад +1

      not much of a drawback as it had every alternate to cast cards excepct i thin phyrexuan mana.

  • @vDeadbolt
    @vDeadbolt Год назад +204

    Fun fact, Karn's ultimate is the only effect that can remove Planeswalker emblems.

    • @sandwichboy1268
      @sandwichboy1268 Год назад +26

      I don't think starting a new game of Magic counts as removing cards from the previous game.
      If Karn's ult counts as removing emblems, so does killing your opponent before moving on to game 2

    • @cooldes4593
      @cooldes4593 Год назад +8

      @@sandwichboy1268 came to say something similar. Nothing is removed, its just a game reset

    • @vDeadbolt
      @vDeadbolt Год назад +21

      ​@@sandwichboy1268 Reseting the game and scooping the game are two completley different things. You can't reset the game on your own will. If you want to argue semantics, I don't care.

    • @williamdrum9899
      @williamdrum9899 Год назад +6

      One day I want to use Karn to win with Barren Glory

    • @Darkvalentine333
      @Darkvalentine333 Год назад +7

      @Sandwich Boy it absolutely counts, because you're not actually ending the game. The "reset, but" is intended to feel like playing the same overall game of magic, but with you having a heavy advantage now. Definitely not the same as, say, killing the opponent.

  • @ShinKungFuMan
    @ShinKungFuMan Год назад +89

    In Old School tournaments, City in a Bottle actually pops up often, due to how strong a lot of Arabian Nights cards are by comparison in that pool.

    • @cax1175
      @cax1175 Год назад +7

      Apocalypse Chime should show up more considering Chandler is the best card in the game.

    • @sandwichboy1268
      @sandwichboy1268 Год назад +4

      @@cax1175 Yes and no. While part of the reason City in a Bottle is played so heavily is the cards it shuts down, it's also because it continues to shut down those cards until it is dealt with.
      Apocalypse Chime just isn't good enough to see play, even if it hits one of the strongest creatures in the format

    • @theemathas
      @theemathas Год назад

      I've also seen it played in vintage sideboards just to deal with Bazaar Of Badhdad.

    • @randallross420
      @randallross420 Год назад +2

      old school tournaments? like only playing unsleeved and the deckboxes are just rubber bands?

    • @ShinKungFuMan
      @ShinKungFuMan Год назад +1

      @@randallross420 Nah more recent stuff in unsanctioned tourneys. There's whole channels dedicated to folks playing ABU4H

  • @GodofMasks
    @GodofMasks Год назад +18

    I think one of the important aspects of Volute is that it's A graveyard not YOUR graveyard. Makes it a lot more interesting and likely to have a target.

    • @johnkingsize
      @johnkingsize Год назад +3

      Exactly!
      It's even the opposite of what the video says, since using the instants that the opponent(s) played allows the deck to include less of these to focus on sorceries.

    • @alch3nemy394
      @alch3nemy394 11 месяцев назад

      Also, on a technicality it's the 3rd card that enchants a card in the graveyard. Animate Dead and dance of the dead both enchanted creatures in the graveyard.

  • @vDeadbolt
    @vDeadbolt Год назад +30

    Fun fact, Wizards did a collaboration with Street Fighter by introducing unique flavored cards. E-Honda was one of them, and he can give up to 100 creatures an attack boost equal to the number of cards in your hand.

    • @BlueGriffin20
      @BlueGriffin20 Год назад +4

      Also Guardian of the Gateless can block any number of creatures too.

    • @RBGolbat
      @RBGolbat Год назад +3

      Yeah there are a few ways to block unlimited creatures. Hundred Handed One is basically that but flavorfully made.

  • @thek838
    @thek838 Год назад +18

    "Getting 101 creatures is basically impossible" scute swarm "Am I a joke to you?"

  • @Mrbananasgfan
    @Mrbananasgfan Год назад +22

    The thing everyone misses about spellweaver volume is that the instant card can be in any graveyard, not just your own

    • @therealnynetynyne360
      @therealnynetynyne360 Год назад +2

      Yup, a friend had a brew with it and all spells wand of elements deck. He almost top 8 a ptq with it.

    • @williamdrum9899
      @williamdrum9899 Год назад

      I like the card but I can't seem to find a home for it. I've actually never really played many instant/sorcery copiers since they seem to cost too much mana to be worthwile

  • @Arkadeion
    @Arkadeion Год назад +42

    You forgot Golgothian Sylex for cards who mention a specific set

  • @ronaldwayne7092
    @ronaldwayne7092 Год назад +16

    I remember the reason they took Word of Command out of print when Revised came along. It was something like "this card is buggier than a high schooler's FORTRAN program."

    • @williamdrum9899
      @williamdrum9899 Год назад +5

      It's funny because the concept is really simple. "Look at target opponents hand and make that player cast a spell and pay for it" but the game's structure isn't built to handle it gracefully. A "modern version" would have them cast it without paying its mana cost, tap down a number of lands equal to its mana value, and then you choose new targets for it

    • @arvopenaali896
      @arvopenaali896 Год назад

      It would be an easy fix with split second.

    • @calemr
      @calemr Год назад

      @@arvopenaali896 split second doesn't stop you from using Mana abilities, so you'd just tap your land in response, and leave your opponent unable to tap any of your lands.

    • @rutt7147
      @rutt7147 Год назад +1

      @@calemr Mana only empties after steps or phases end. Your opponent floating a bunch of mana in response to this spell going on the stack means nothing if they don't use the mana, and once this spell begins resolving, since you control the player during resolution, you can choose whether to tap the lands at that point instead of them. They could tap their mana producing utility lands I guess and negate some of the benefit. The card works fine within the current ruleset of the game if all rules are actually applied. It's just a janky early version of a player control effect that was written very specifically, like a lot of effects from back then.

    • @ronaldwayne7092
      @ronaldwayne7092 Год назад +3

      @@calemr Remember that mana burn was a thing back then.

  • @boros4925
    @boros4925 Год назад +21

    You can FEEL that Hundreds handed One was made by someone absolutely ballistic against rats decks

    • @0011peace
      @0011peace Год назад +1

      Ritual of soot is good against rats it doesn't even care that they are large just low mana

  • @dorping_Wolf
    @dorping_Wolf Год назад +11

    finally someone mentioning spellweaver for its weirdness.
    it just breaking multipole rules was always funny for me. (wrong zone and illegal target)

  • @Dekkerd89
    @Dekkerd89 Год назад +1

    The factoid at 8:47 is incorrect. Dance of the Dead and Animate Dead both also enchant a card in your graveyard, they just then put those cards onto the battlefield.

  • @BahamutEx
    @BahamutEx 6 месяцев назад +4

    2:08 there's a jace with text like that

    • @username4835
      @username4835 4 месяца назад +1

      Jace, Reawakened (revealing Jace to be impersonating Ashiok on Thunder Junction).
      Outlaws at Thunder Junction released April 2024, a year after this video.

  • @samorottheraccoon754
    @samorottheraccoon754 Год назад +12

    You forgot Golgothian Sylex when talking about City in a Bottle and Apocalypse Chime. Sylex is the counterpart for Antiquities.

  • @sandrin0
    @sandrin0 Год назад +4

    12:04 there's also merchant scroll from homelands that sees some play in eternal formats, I think it's restricted in vintage and pointed in canlander. I think there's also a homelands card that gets played in wall-tribal commander decks

    • @TellerofTalesMTG
      @TellerofTalesMTG Год назад

      Apocalypse chime doesn’t interact with merchant scroll though, and I don’t think I’d consider that wall card good, as arcades is doing all the heavy lifting in making it playable.

    • @TheyCallHimPogo
      @TheyCallHimPogo Год назад

      Merchant Scroll is used to find Ancestral Recall in Vintage. I use it in a commander deck to find a counterspell, Pognify, or Evacuation when I need them.

  • @TheSilentParadox
    @TheSilentParadox Год назад +28

    Caught a number of small errors in this video.
    5:38 They care called slivers, not silvers.
    8:42 There is in fact another card that enchants cards in the graveyard: Dance of the Dead
    11:11 There is a third card that references what set cards are from: Golgothian Sylex
    Otherwise great video!

    • @thomassynths
      @thomassynths Год назад +4

      Additionally there exist creatures that can block any number of creatures, contrary to him saying 100 was the most.

    • @catit6599
      @catit6599 Год назад +2

      Theres also animate dead

    • @stigmurder99
      @stigmurder99 Год назад +1

      ​@@catit6599 came here for that lmao

    • @dyne313
      @dyne313 Год назад

      Finding out which words are going to be mispronounced in every video is like a mini game for these video's.

  • @ReyosBlackwood
    @ReyosBlackwood Год назад +1

    11:52 This is not the case. City in a Bottle was played specifically as a counter to Serendib Efreet, since it functioned as removal for all copies of what was at the time a very good flying creature and prevented any other copies from being cast. The worst case of someone having to deal with this card came from the pre-errata text of the card, when City in a Bottle cared about the set symbol on the card not the original printing set, and it was played agaisnt someone's mono red deck using only the rarest possible mountains, the accidental mountains left on Arabian Nights sheets, it exiled all those lands and stopped him from playing any more.

  • @pitmaster226
    @pitmaster226 Год назад +5

    “Cowards can’t block warriors” I think deserves a spot more than “all lands you control are basic”

    • @williamdrum9899
      @williamdrum9899 Год назад

      I'm still upset that Norin the Wary's creature type is Human Warrior when it should have been Human Coward

  • @408JMP
    @408JMP Год назад +4

    My dude, they are slivers. Like a sliver of wood, or a sliver of pizza, or of chicken. That being said, I've been watching you since the Yu-gi-oh days, and I want to say keep up the great work, I love your content!

    • @awwkieb3864
      @awwkieb3864 Год назад

      I was about to make fun of him, but I literally made the same mistake when I started playing XD

    • @MindLaboratory
      @MindLaboratory Год назад +1

      Sliver of pizza?

    • @Prince_Eva_Huepow
      @Prince_Eva_Huepow 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@MindLaboratoryHave you seen those tiny slices?

  • @HybridAngelZero
    @HybridAngelZero Год назад +7

    I remember coming across Goblin Game in a booster pack back when Planeshift was new and I legit thought they accidentally printed an Unglued card in a main set

  • @skamensch4306
    @skamensch4306 8 месяцев назад +2

    Word of Command has been noticed not just for the effect but for the artwork, too.

  • @randommaster06
    @randommaster06 Год назад +1

    Great video, looking forward to the next one.
    Covetous Urde/Word of Command is a great demonstration of "90% of the way there" design. Both players and developers frequently get tripped up on having tn making cards do one specific thing.

  • @fwg1994
    @fwg1994 Год назад +3

    Druid Tribal is a deck that has almost been there for years in Canadian Highlander, with Gilt-Leaf Archdruid being one of the big cornerstones of the deck. Every time a new druid gets printed, there's a very select group of an already niche format that gets real excited over it. There's a whole bunch of druids that are just staples in other decks though, so the deck plays mostly just like a normal value deck, except it occasionally has these combo cards it can pull out that actually pay off the tribal aspect.
    Also Spellweaver Volute may be the only aura to enchant something that isn't a permanent or player, but it's actually not the only enchantment to enchant something in the graveyard. The reanimation enchantments, such as Animate Dead are actually surprisingly complicated to make work within the modern rules of MtG. Since they require a target on cast, they enchant a creature card in your graveyard, and then, once the creature returns to the battlefield, completely changes its own text to instead enchant the creature it returned.

    • @williamdrum9899
      @williamdrum9899 Год назад

      I tried building Green/White Enchantress "Cheerios" but it always seems to run out of steam before I can get seven druids... Paradox Engine being banned in EDH neuters the whole strategy

    • @fwg1994
      @fwg1994 Год назад

      @@williamdrum9899 I think the canlander deck is essentially a modified elf ball deck, since a lot of the good druids happen to be elves. Might also run Craterhoof as a backup wincon, though elf tribal and cradlehoof are two distinct elf tribal decks in canlander, and I'm not sure which one druids tribal draws from more.

    • @benjiusofficial
      @benjiusofficial 3 месяца назад

      I quit MTG years ago but I still have a Druid deck specifically for Two-Headed Giant. You can guess how it plays lol

  • @ch1r0n
    @ch1r0n Год назад +1

    "Getting over 100 creatures is almost impossible" every swarm deck in existence laughs.

  • @Freesqare
    @Freesqare Год назад +2

    "Getting over 100 creatures is basically impossible"
    Krenko- "Am I a joke to you?"

  • @Dyllon2012
    @Dyllon2012 Год назад +18

    It’s SLiver not SILver.

    • @Tech35_
      @Tech35_ Месяц назад +2

      The narrator doesn't play magic, someone else writes the scripts

  • @bardeenios251
    @bardeenios251 Год назад +8

    11:19 Golgothian Sylex is also one of the few expansion hate cards.

  • @TheFaithfulAtheist
    @TheFaithfulAtheist Год назад +2

    11:12
    Golgothian Sylex: I'm right here, guys.

  • @GreatgoatonFire
    @GreatgoatonFire Год назад +4

    I'm looking forward to Mystery of the Druids staring Detective Halligan squaring off against Glit-Leaf Archdrood.

  • @izaiahsundquist6877
    @izaiahsundquist6877 Год назад +2

    Obsidian Fireheart is a card I think could make this list. Here's the card text:
    {1}{R}{R}: Put a blaze counter on target land without a blaze counter on it. For as long as that land has a blaze counter on it, it has “At the beginning of your upkeep, this land deals 1 damage to you.” _(The land continues to burn after Obsidian Fireheart has left the battlefield.)_

  • @greyaye8565
    @greyaye8565 Год назад +1

    Did you pronounce Sliver as Silver a bunch of times at 5:38?

    • @ZexionII
      @ZexionII Год назад

      Yeah he does stuff like that a bunch. He also called Theros an "allegory" to Greek myth, when he probably mean allusion.

  • @soarel325
    @soarel325 Год назад +1

    City of Brass, Library of Alexandria, and Oubliette are all great cards from Arabian Nights besides Bazaar. Ernham Djinn was also one of the best creatures in Magic for Years, Kird Ape being among the best for even longer, even if both have been powercrept out.

  • @perrinfullmer172
    @perrinfullmer172 Год назад +1

    Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty can add another cascade to Apex Devastator relevant text on Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty is "Spells you cast with CMC 6 or greater have cascade"

  • @criscofields7242
    @criscofields7242 Год назад +9

    Should Yidris have double strike you'd get that Eleventh Cascade. Imoti would add another. There's twelve.

    • @cerpintaxt362
      @cerpintaxt362 Год назад +1

      Add in a harmonic prodigy for 2 more with that double strike

  • @dzspdref
    @dzspdref Год назад +1

    5:40 The First "Silver"? I think you mean to say SLIVER. Please tell me you know the differences. And where is Shahrazad in this list?

  • @NeufAtora
    @NeufAtora Год назад

    Apex Devastator was a hilarious card to me when I got it in the commander deck. I've never seen another card with a repeating keyword like that until you showed the double cascade card. What a beautiful creature.

  • @davey_rulez7301
    @davey_rulez7301 Год назад +8

    they should make a version of Apocalypse Chime/City in a Bottle that hoses Modern Horizons

  • @zeusalternative1270
    @zeusalternative1270 Год назад +36

    The reason why Hundred-Handed One can block specificaly 100 creatures is because is a reference to the Hecatoncheires, giants with 100 hands and 50 heads from greek myhtology.

    • @NStripleseven
      @NStripleseven Год назад +3

      So does that imply that before it’s monstrous, it has 1 hand?

    • @serrid9330
      @serrid9330 Год назад +11

      @@NStriplesevenmust be busy cracking his other 99 knuckles

    • @AdonanS
      @AdonanS Год назад +1

      That sounds like a living hell. Where the hell would you find the space on a single body for 50 heads and 100 arms? Unless it has 25 or 50 torsos too, all sprouting from one pair of legs. Or maybe they sprout out like tree branches. Either way, it sounds top-heavy; a single stiff breeze would send the thing toppling over.

    • @balder7047
      @balder7047 Год назад +1

      @@AdonanS in most representation, their arms sprout out of each others like tree branches, or are spawned from their back kinda like a bodhisattva

    • @NStripleseven
      @NStripleseven Год назад +1

      @@AdonanS I would have to imagine that a lot of the arms/heads float, like in the art.

  • @Baron_Alice_Stares
    @Baron_Alice_Stares Год назад +1

    Regarding City of a bottle and Apocalypse chime, doesn't Golgothian Sylex also have that effect?

  • @dismasthepenitent569
    @dismasthepenitent569 Год назад +2

    Surprised Garth one-eye didn't make the list

  • @aaronm.885
    @aaronm.885 Год назад +2

    If you can give Palace Guard reach or flying, it could actually guard more than Hundred Handed one, but still cool.

  • @KeroTheInvincible
    @KeroTheInvincible Год назад +2

    Tempest Efreet and Timmerian Fiends have to be the wildest effects I've seen printed on a card. They are banned in EVERY format, by merit of being the only cards which can change actual physical OWNERSHIP of cards within a game. As in, the card you stole from your opponent becomes your physical property that you get to take home with you.
    Now, Timmerian Fiends can only be played if both players are playing for Ante (which is literally illegal as it runs afoul of gambling laws), and both cards give the affected player the ability to counter the effect without having to pay mana. In Efreet's case, this leads to another hilarious bit of text where the game tells you to either pay 10 life or straight up CONCEDE THE GAME to avoid getting your card stolen from you.

    • @evilsheepmaster1744
      @evilsheepmaster1744 Год назад

      The concede effect is my favorite part. Like yeah, technically any effect can be "countered" by conceding the game, but there's just something great about the card saying "ya know, opponent, the efreet can't take anything if you concede the game. Just reminding you that the option is on the table" 😂

    • @SomeGuy712x
      @SomeGuy712x Год назад

      Bronze Tablet can cause an ownership change too.

    • @KeroTheInvincible
      @KeroTheInvincible Год назад

      @@SomeGuy712x I knew I was missing one, but couldn't place the name.

  • @Spyromancy598
    @Spyromancy598 Год назад +1

    0:50
    Not true, Gaurdian of the Gateless from gatecrash can block any number of creatures.
    it even gets bigger for each one.

  • @rajamicitrenti1374
    @rajamicitrenti1374 Год назад +1

    You could get more cascade triggers by adding in triggered ability copiers, such as Strionic Resonator.

  • @federicobarenghi6084
    @federicobarenghi6084 Год назад

    I know it's bit of a niche interaction, but Yidris is a bit stronger then you depicted it: each time he deals damage he adds a separate istance of cascade. So giving him double strike, or having multiple battle phases can end up in even 13-15 cascade triggers on Apex devastator.
    Having Yidris stuck up cascades is a common strategy for EDH decks having him as the Commander.
    Loved the video and all your content.
    See yaa~

  • @Necrotog82
    @Necrotog82 Год назад +2

    TheManaLogs: Arabian Night is a terrible set with only Bazaar of Baghdad as the great card.
    City of Brass, Library of Alexandria, Oubliette, Kird Ape: are we a joke to you?
    Serendib Efreet, Juzám Djinn: We use to be great!
    Shahrazad: No one likes me =(.

    • @michaelsinnreich6626
      @michaelsinnreich6626 Год назад +1

      I got banned from my store tournaments back in the day by forking a shahrazad.

  • @ASoulphoenix
    @ASoulphoenix Год назад +3

    I'm surprised to not see that many cards from Future sight represented here, since WotC was being experimental in that set, and effects were mostly weird.

  • @conker841
    @conker841 Год назад +8

    Goblin game was always a favorite of mine

    • @2424Lars
      @2424Lars Год назад

      I lost to a Goblin Game when I was at 2 life in a Mystery Booster draft once XD

  • @megapussi
    @megapussi Год назад +3

    havent watched the video yet but I remember watching a video about an early scrapped magic set that was basically this entire concept being heavily pushed. I remember one card was like "all players gain 200 life!" including the exclamation mark, like the card itself is trying to tell you what a wacky and dumb card it is.

  • @Jc27uhh4h4h4
    @Jc27uhh4h4h4 5 месяцев назад +1

    2:03 now on the new jace from otj

  • @jamesyoung3731
    @jamesyoung3731 Год назад +1

    The problem with gilt leaf is that the druid tribe doesn't have a lot of support except for that most of them are mana dorks which aren't great in commander

  • @metalblizzard6024
    @metalblizzard6024 Год назад +2

    Just a note, in limited "hundred handed one" was a bomb

  • @DiverseCurse
    @DiverseCurse Год назад +1

    11:11 Golgothian Sylex

  • @anthonyi8484
    @anthonyi8484 Год назад +2

    I’m surprised you didn’t mention Herald of Leshrac, I did a triple take when I read that card for the first time

  • @zevreth8826
    @zevreth8826 Год назад +2

    Personally, I'm amazed number one isn't Sheherazade and for those who don't know, the card reads "Players must leave game in progress as it is and use the cards left in their libraries as decks with which to play a subgame of Magic. When subgame is over, players shuffle these cards, return them to libraries, and resume game in progress, with any loser of subgame halving his or her remaining life points, rounding down. Effects that prevent damage may not be used to counter this loss of life. The subgame has no ante; using less than forty cards may be necessary."

  • @k1ngTony
    @k1ngTony Год назад

    Hundred-Handed on: what about guardian of the gateless? can block any number, and for each blocking this way , it get's +1/+1 - pretty good on tokens?

  • @themantyf1116
    @themantyf1116 Год назад +1

    I expected Sherazad to be on this list.
    Another note for the hecatoncheir is that it, like the other couple of eccets that allow a creature to block all other creatures, are basically fogs, and usually overpriced.
    At the end of the day, the giant is still a 6/8, meaning that 8 damage will kill it. It can destroy attackers, unlike fogs, but still only deals 6 damage, so not much. And trample makes it worse, since if creatures without trample deal the 8 damage needed those with trample can just ignore it. And fogs themselves are rarely used outside of commander in the first place.

  • @jshtng78
    @jshtng78 Год назад +1

    The most competitively successful strategies with absurdly difficult casting requirements would be an interesting topic. May be a good fit for an 'Unknown Side' style video if not enough for a list.

  • @OllyWood688
    @OllyWood688 Год назад +1

    I would'Ve expected #1 to at least share it's placing with Chains of Mephistoteles :D

  • @josephwodarczyk977
    @josephwodarczyk977 Год назад

    3:12 Dude that transition was dope.

  • @aethertech
    @aethertech Год назад +1

    I played Word of Command in EDH monoblack deck, mostly for shits and giggles. BUT I did once hit a Decree of Pain that decked my opponent.

  • @ArdorBlossomFindle
    @ArdorBlossomFindle Год назад

    The "Then do it again." on Maelstrom Wanderer is my all-time piece of rules/reminder text. Yes, Apex Devastator's four triggers is more impressive, but that bit of playfulness is just nice

  • @Trip_Fontaine
    @Trip_Fontaine Год назад

    My brother once made top 8 in a Prerelease using a deck with 2 Goblin Games. This was back in the day when Prereleases were huge tournaments involving many hundreds of people.

  • @Dargonaxable
    @Dargonaxable Год назад +1

    how about a top 10 of your favourite silver boarded cards from "unstable" "unglued" "unhindered" and so on, i mean it would be kinda fitting as a follow up to this episode.

  • @NeroLordofChaos
    @NeroLordofChaos Год назад +4

    Guardian of the Gateless can block more creatures than Hundred handed one.
    It literally has the text: block any number of creatures, it gets +1/+1 til end of turn for each creature blocked.
    Also
    *S L I V E R*
    not
    *S I L V E R*

  • @ReyosBlackwood
    @ReyosBlackwood Год назад

    8:45 Is Animate Dead (Enchant creature card in a graveyard) nothing to you?

  • @seryntheon8195
    @seryntheon8195 Год назад +1

    8:44
    Animate Dead.

  • @Faithful_Solaire
    @Faithful_Solaire 4 месяца назад

    Bro, Arabian Nights was awesome. Kird Ape, Juzam, Erhnam, Serendib, Flying Man, City of Brass, Library & Bazaar. This set is amazing.

  • @SoloFalcon1138
    @SoloFalcon1138 Год назад

    11:15 what about Golgothian Sylex?

  • @Finngrinder
    @Finngrinder Год назад

    Illusionary Mask, Shahrazad (though that one is no longer legal anywhere) or Chains of Meph did not occur for this list? Arabian Nights has pieces that may appear quite a bit in older formats like Library of Alexandria, City of Brass or Guardian Beast

  • @JoshuaBirnholz
    @JoshuaBirnholz Год назад

    You can’t use it to get an eleventh cascade since it conflicts with some of the other cascade-granting cards, but Wild-Magic Sorcerer could give an extra instance of cascade to Apex Devastator if you can cast I from exile.

  • @felipevasconcello8164
    @felipevasconcello8164 Год назад

    I love your videos and have some ideas: World championship decks that dominated / changed the meta, best slivers, best support texts, worst/best standard metas

  • @corey2232
    @corey2232 Год назад +3

    Funny pronunciation of this video - Sliver 😉

    • @Kaaierd
      @Kaaierd Год назад +2

      There a silver lining.

  • @evelynposegate2968
    @evelynposegate2968 10 месяцев назад +1

    There’s a card that cares about expansions for antiquities as well

  • @universalperson
    @universalperson Год назад +1

    In addition to Golgothian Sylex, there are some Unglued and Un-set cards that mention their expansion.

  • @kunopumpernikkel215
    @kunopumpernikkel215 Год назад +2

    Suggestion for future list:
    Top 10 defenders

  • @chrisgebben2043
    @chrisgebben2043 Год назад +1

    ok if there's a crazy worded card number one is next to always a tie with the nightmare wording of "Ice cauldron" and the less confusing "jeweled amulet"

  • @MrHeesman
    @MrHeesman 10 месяцев назад

    ''Getting 101 Creatures is Basically impossible''
    I beg to differ.
    There was this one game where a friend of mine flooded me with 132 Fairies and 162 Thopters in a single combat.
    And there was this other game where that friend's girlfriend had Doubling Season out and kept flickering Gruff Triplets with Emiel the Blessed.

  • @melek_the_weird
    @melek_the_weird Год назад +1

    Something just came to mind that I think would add a bit more spice to these MtG lists is mentioning how good certain cards are also in limited formats. Unlike other games like pokemon or yu-gi-oh, there are plenty of cards that will never see strong competitive play but are powerhouses in limited settings like draft or sealed. A perfect example would be hundred-handed one who was obviously too slow for constructed but phenomenal pick in limited settings. Limited is a big part of MtG & I feel like adding these details will make card presenting & picks on this channel a bit more spicy & variant.

  • @Jeison-Nunes
    @Jeison-Nunes 3 месяца назад

    I'm sure someone already mentioned but the Serra Avengers text appeared recently on the new Jace's planeslwalker huh, the one from OTJ which costs the same but blue mana and has the same text, although it is a planeswalker not a creature

  • @Darkvalentine333
    @Darkvalentine333 Год назад

    I don't know about elsewhere, but played standard at Star City Games during Theros every week, and I saw a ton people using Hundred handed one in white Devotion lol.

  • @wolf_8026
    @wolf_8026 Год назад +1

    5:40 not a biggie, but it's "Sliv-er"

  • @herbievalerius5740
    @herbievalerius5740 Год назад

    This prototype mechanic has me stumped on many things, but your video brings up a good example: hulking metamorph prototypes an apex devastator; what's the cascade mana limit?
    2BB or 7?

    • @kirbyfanprime
      @kirbyfanprime Год назад

      It wouldn't matter, as cascade is a cast trigger, not an ETB. Metamorph doesn't become anything until it resolves, at which point it's off the stack, past the point cascade would trigger.
      If I'm incorrect in that statement, since prototype overrides every characteristic of a card except for types and abilities, it would be for the 2UU.

  • @zeo4481
    @zeo4481 8 месяцев назад +1

    ,,You can't lose the game and your opponents can't win the game "

  • @kid14346
    @kid14346 Год назад

    I always watch these kinds of lists for my Chaos Deck. I basically am always modifying a deck that is the most chaotic cards possible.
    Some cards include: Warp World, Possibility Storm, Hive Mind, Grand Melee, Conjured Currency, Farwell to Arms, and the card that started me down this path... Scrambleverse.

  • @jenniferwilliams9612
    @jenniferwilliams9612 Год назад +1

    11:14 Um, Actually!…. There are three cards that do this. Golgothian Sylex is also an expansion hoser for Antiquities. It destroys all Antiquities cards in play. :: pushes glasses up nose in self-satisfied nerdery:::

  • @Chosen1_of.the.NONexistent_God

    0:50 Wall of Glare, Palace Guard, Thoughtweft Trio, Guardian of the Gateless, Ironfist Crusher and Avatar of Hope can block ANY number of creatures

  • @jhnggg
    @jhnggg Год назад

    I have definitely ultimated Karn on purpose. Was on too little life against burn and had batterskull under Karn. Had to get a judge to make sure I got the germ token too

  • @pascalculate
    @pascalculate Год назад +2

    Sliver, not silver :) 5:39

  • @cameronmark803
    @cameronmark803 Год назад +1

    I think you already can cascade Apex Devastator 11 times. Wild-Magic Sorcerer gives the 1st spell you cast from exile each turn cascade.
    So you use Dream Devourer to foretell Apex Devastator (or something similar). Then use treasures to cast it

    • @pumkinswift8263
      @pumkinswift8263 Год назад +1

      Pretty sure this conflicts with Yidris, as it only works on cards from hand

    • @cameronmark803
      @cameronmark803 Год назад +1

      @@pumkinswift8263 You're right

    • @NotAnEvilMastermind
      @NotAnEvilMastermind Год назад

      Imoti, Celebrant of Bounty also gives cascade to anything with mana value 6+.